12th February 2012: LAW NEWS HEADLINES & LINKS

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• CANADA: Harper to China: We want trade, but human rights must come first http://t.co/0lyo4nWa Feb 12, 2012
• SPAIN: Baltasar Garzon, Champion of Human Rights http://t.co/c9CdIqsW  Feb 12, 2012
• HAITI: A Dangerous Precedent: The Human Rights Abuses of Jean Claude Duvalier http://t.co/Vh0TlPMh Feb 12, 2012
• Biometric scans for all overseas Games athletes - http://t.co/yvxKWBHJ Feb 12, 2012
• ISRAEL: detained without charge for 2 months, close to death, now Israel shackles Palestinian hunger striker http://t.co/HEjsRH3D Feb 12, 2012
• Victim's fury after £18k fraud probe solicitor jets off to new life - Scotland http://t.co/USvYzRFB Feb 12, 2012
• Family courts plans 'risk miscarriages of justice' http://t.co/O83C1q3c Feb 12, 2012
• Jailed killers logging on to Facebook from behind bars to laugh at justice and torment victims - Scotland http://t.co/Qwzq39SX Feb 12, 2012
• Barrister resigns after private meeting with victim http://t.co/GEDFrcFM Feb 12, 2012
• Civil partners win against gay discrimination appeal http://t.co/3WtrNL5b Feb 12, 2012
• Whatever happened to Human Rights? http://t.co/A35leXI2 Feb 12, 2012
• Joanna Yeates killer will receive up to £500,000 legal aid http://t.co/ShUbg9B3 Feb 12, 2012
• Coulcil chiefs in Wigan today strongly defended cash spent on paying external companies for legal advice -: http://t.co/fKQ7zIyK Feb 12, 2012
• MEXICO: Mob lynches three suspected kidnappers in Mexico http://t.co/fXLV6UMV Feb 12, 2012
• MALAYSIA: Saudi journalist sent home from Malaysia for tweets about prophet http://t.co/O4pEfPEE Feb 12, 2012
• Home raid uncovers 4,620 illegal cigarettes - Grimsby http://t.co/WHFLZN68 Feb 12, 2012
• TURKEY: Illegal fishing threatens fish industry in Turkish seas http://t.co/5vnkhdPO Feb 12, 2012
• Defence Staff Held In Illegal Payments Probe http://t.co/ZMa6SPNT Feb 12, 2012
• INDONESIA: 'Demolition Man' who made the Bali bomb goes on trial - http://t.co/D1ULeyZ1 Feb 12, 2012
• Vatican lawyer's statement on end of sex abuse case http://t.co/HqYT2uiB Feb 12, 2012
• TUNISIA: The lawyer representing Ben Ali has condemned the sale the former president's seized properties http://t.co/tSPAn4S0 Feb 12, 2012
• US: ‘Fast Eddie’ unable to afford a lawyer http://t.co/IDBOELka Feb 12, 2012
• ITALY: cruise ship survivors to push for change http://t.co/yl9IWoxj Feb 12, 2012
• US: Lawyer for sex abuse victim in US asks to dismiss lawsuit against pope, top Vatican officials http://t.co/arirrKPZ Feb 12, 2012
• SPAIN: King's son-in-law accused of corruption, embezzlement http://t.co/og6SXIsT Feb 12, 2012
• Law grads : Opportunities await in journalism and social media http://t.co/uGSoiyu8 Feb 12, 2012
• CANADA: Ontario Courts recognise a privacy tort http://t.co/tEEgup5i Feb 12, 2012
• Euro-Courts Blasted Over Al-Qaida Suspect's Release http://t.co/8h92jkah Feb 12, 2012
• IRELAND: Fear grips courts where killers learned trade http://t.co/pH3LfqrB Feb 12, 2012
• US: Group wants Supreme Court to save CA war memorial http://t.co/HPlX7p3Y Feb 12, 2012
• Long arm of law: Prescott wants to join the police - http://t.co/ELB16ARh Feb 12, 2012
• Law firms offer FREE iPads and shopping vouchers to tempt victims to make personal injury claims http://t.co/tvQ5xd9y Feb 12, 2012
• CANADA: New law could allow police to view people's web-surfing habits http://t.co/OklQynNm Feb 12, 2012
• Top judge ordered to scrap human rights ruling - http://t.co/uKrkrO6T Feb 12, 2012
• Leveson: What we've learnt so far http://t.co/762tBi8E Feb 12, 2012
• Eight arrests as Murdoch 'throws staff to the wolves' - http://t.co/ab1AM4yA Feb 12, 2012
• Abu Qatada could be freed from jail in days http://t.co/YOTrto7b Feb 12, 2012
• Women prisoners: self-harm, suicide attempts and the struggle for survival http://t.co/SGvaw8Vl Feb 12, 2012
• Human rights abuses could be covered up under new justice bill proposals http://t.co/KDmv7zOA Feb 12, 2012
• Where are the judges fit for the internet age? | Nick Cohen http://t.co/bEitrNtZ Feb 12, 2012
• You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen – review http://t.co/bjRfk9jB Feb 12, 2012